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Votes at a glance: key actions taken by the Utah Senate on March 3, 2025
Summary
The Utah Senate advanced and passed multiple bills during its March 3 session. This roundup lists notable floor actions and the clerk’s recorded tallies as spoken on the record.
The Utah Senate’s March 3, 2025 floor session advanced numerous measures across education, health care, housing, taxation and other policy areas. Below are the notable motions and outcomes as recorded on the floor. Where the clerk read a roll-call tally, that tally is included; where the floor record did not provide a clear numeric total, the entry is marked "not specified." All tallies and outcomes come from the session transcript.
Votes and key outcomes (selected):
- First Substitute Senate Bill 35 (Statewide Online Education Program Modifications): Motion to read for a third time carried. Clerk announced 24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent. (Moved to third reading.)
- First Substitute Senate Bill 3 36 (Utah Fair Park Area Investment and Restoration District Modifications): Motion to read for a third time carried; the clerk’s floor statement recorded the result as "First substitute Senate bill 3 36 having received 20 yay votes, [clerk recording of nay count not fully spelled out on transcript], 5 being absent" (transcript phrasing recorded verbatim). The bill was read for a third time.
- Second Substitute Senate Bill 2 62 (Housing Affordability Modifications): Passed by the Senate and sent to the House. Clerk announced 26 yay, 1 nay, 2 absent.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 3 40 (Protected Person Amendments): Motion to read for a third time carried. Clerk announced 24 yay, 0 nay, 5 absent.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 3 38 (Nonprofit Entities Amendments): Motion to read for a third time carried. Clerk announced 23 yay, 0 nay, 6 absent.
- Senate Bill 71 (Social Security Tax Revisions): Motion to read for a third time carried. Clerk announced 25 yay, 1 nay, 3 absent.
- First Substitute Senate Bill 3 30 (Cosmetology Modifications): The bill was read for a third time; clerk announced 21 yay, 5 nay, 3 absent.
- First Substitute House Bill 2 19 (Charter School Funding Revisions): Read for a third time (25 yay, 0 nay, 4 absent), then a motion to table on third for fiscal impact passed; the bill was placed at the bottom of the table-on-third calendar.
- First Substitute House Bill 1 52 (Health Care Facilities Amendments): Read for a third time (26 yay, 0 nay, 3 absent) and placed on third reading.
- Multiple additional house bills were passed on the consent calendar with unanimous or near-unanimous recordings (examples on the record include First Substitute House Bill 112; Third Substitute House Bill 308; House Bill 67; House Bill 115). The transcript records roll-call tallies for each of these as part of the consent/third-reading calendar; specific tallies are noted in the floor transcript and are included in the provenance excerpt below.
Most floor actions were procedural (motions to circle/uncircle, motions to read bills for a third time, and final-passage votes for bills on the third-reading calendar). When the transcript listed specific vote tallies, those counts are quoted above. For several measures the floor language around the tally was abbreviated or the clerk’s wording left one number unclear in the transcript; where the clerk’s phrasing was not numerically explicit, the entry is flagged as "not specified" or the clerk wording is quoted verbatim.
This roundup is intended to capture formal outcomes recorded on the floor during the March 3 session; individual bill texts, amendments, committee reports, and accompanying fiscal notes should be consulted in the official legislative files for implementation details and exact statutory language.
